Necktie



June 30, 1936. w. H. VE RELLE NECKTIE Filed' sept. 5, 1933 2 Sheets-Sheet l Patented `lune 30, 1936 U'E'ED STATES ATENT OFFICE 1 Claim.

My invention relates to new and useful improvements in a necktie and particularly to improvements on the structures embodied in my prior Patents Number 1,864,265, dated June 21, 1932 and Number 1,891,630, dated December 20, 1932, and has for one of its objects to simplify the construction of such a device to the end that a preformed necktie will be produced which has al1 the appearances of a hand tied one.

Another object of the invention is to eliminate the necessity of producing intricate interlacings of a whole necktie to form a knot, breast-piece and neck band.

Another object of this invention is to produce a necktie by a new method.

A further object of the invention is to form a necktie, and especially the knot thereof, with a minimum amount of sewing or stitches.

A still further object ofA this invention is to fashion the upper portion or end of the knot by tucking in and clamping the edges of the covering between parts of the filler of the knot.

With these and other ends in view, this invention consists in the details of construction, the steps necessary to carry out the method, and the combination of elements hereinafter set forth and then specifically designated by the claim.

In order that those skilled in the art to which this invention appertains may understand how to make and use the same, I will describe its construction in detail, referring by numerals to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this application, in which2 Fig. 1 is a fragmentary rear view of the breastpiece with portions folded back to show the relation of the primary and secondary stiffeners.

Fig. 2 is a rear view of the knot covering turned inside out to receive certain parts of the necktie during assembly.)

Fig, 3 is a similar view with the breast-piece folded and inserted in the knot covering, a portion of said breast-piece being broken away.

Fig. 4 is a view of the reinforcing member.

Fig, 5 is an upper edge view of the core element with the reinforcing member mounted therein.

Fig. 6 is a similar view with the reinforcing member bent to facilitate telescoping the knot covering thereover.

Fig. 7 is a fragmentary rear view of the parts of the necktie assembled prior to drawing the knot covering over the core member and component elements.

Fig. 8 is a rear face View of the core member.

Fig. 9 is a similar View with the neck-band attached.

Fig. 10 is a fragmentary front face view of the folded breast-piece.

Fig. 11 is a fragmentary rear view of the assembled parts of the necktie showing the knot ends are turned or folded over and fastened to the major portion or body of the material as by stitches 2E so as to form pockets 22.

The pockets 22 are to receive the legs 23 and 24 of the reinforcing member 25, Fig. 4, preferably, but not necessarily, of wire while the cross bar 26 thereof extends across the rear face of the core member 2li adjacent its upper edge. The

core, including said'core member 2l) and said 20 reinforcing member 25 can be bent into tapered cylindrical shape and such shape will be retained.

A piece of suitable goods or fabric is folded longitudinally with the wrong side or reverse face outside and the longitudinal meeting edges sewn together by the stitches 2l to form a tubular knot covering 28, Fig. 2.

Another piece of suitable goods or fabric, preferably the same as used in the knot covering, is properly fashioned to provide a breast-piece 29. Preferably this breast-piece is also made into tubular form by folding the fabric and sewing together the longitudinal meeting edges with the stitches 3l! and then flattened so that the stitches are at the back. A primary stiener 3l, Fig. 1, of considerable length and approximately as wide as the breast-piece is located in the latter and a secondary stiffener 32, Fig. 1, is located in said breast-piece between the primary stiffener 3l and the back wall of the breast-piece. In the nished necktie, said secondary stiffener is situated at the neck of the breast-piece contiguous the knot.

The upper end of the breast-piece 29 is fashioned to provide any desirable shape or configuration of neck but the form I generally prefer is produced by folding over the upper parts of the side edges of said breast-piece to constitute triangular wings 33, Fig 10.

A neck-band 343, which also preferably is of the same material or fabric as the balance of visible portions of the completed necktie, can be made by folding a strip of the fabric upon itself and sewing the longitudinal meeting edges together with stitches 35.

To assemble the necktie, the neck-band 34 is secured at one end to the rear face of the core member 20 at one side thereof as by the stitches 35, Fig. 9. The reinforcing member 25 is then is inserted in the tubular knot covering 28, which has its inside turned out, and these parts are secured at their upper ends to the rear face of the core member 2li, as by stitches 31, Figs. l and l1. Next the longer leg 24 of the reinforcing member is pulled back to sheath its pointed end and the free end of the knot covering is then brought up over the core member in the manner shown in Fig. 11 until the front part of said knot covering can be passed over the upper edge of the core member for securement to the back part of said knot covering at the back of the core member as by stitche-s 38, Fig. 12. Prior to securing the parts of the knot covering together, the longer leg 24 o" the reinforcing member is returned to its normal position at which time it will penetrate said knot covering as shown in Fig. 12.

Lastly the knot structure is bent into tapered cylindrical shape to form the knot 39 with the vertical edges slightly separated and diverging toward their upper ends to produce a slot 40 which is wider at its upper endthan at its lower end.

The front View of the necktie gives the general appearance of an ordinary four-in-hand necktie but in which the knot 39 has convex upper and lower ends and the neck of the breast-piece is symmetrical.

In using the necktie, the knot thereof is placed at the left side of the collar and the neck-band is passed around the collar. Said knot is then slightly tilted and also slightly rotated to give access to the upper wide end of the slot leading to the hollow interior of the knot to permit sidewise or edgewise passage of the neck-band through said slot into the knot. When the neckband is in the knot the latter is slid upwardly and placed in the desired position in front of the collar and said neck-band caused to engage the pointed or sharpened end of the longer leg of the reinforcing member to hold the necktie in its proper adjusted position.

To remove the ne-cktie, the knot is moved upwardly along the neck-band a suicient distance to disengage said neck-band from the holding means or pointed end of the reinforcing leg, after which the necktie proper or the knot thereor can be disengaged from the neck-band by withdrawing the latter through the slot permitting the necktie to be easily removed from the collar.

Of course I do not wish to be limited to the exact details of construction here-in shown and described as these may be varied within the limits of the appended claim without departing from the spirit of my invention.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and useful isz- The method of forming a necktie consisting of bending the ends of a bendable core member over upon itself to form pockets, then securing one end of a neck-band to said core member, then inserting the legs of an inverted U-shaped reinforcing member in said pockets, then inserting a breast-piece into a tubular knot covering with the inside face of the latter outermost, then simultaneously securing one end of the breastpiece and the coinciding end of the knot covering to the core member, then drawing said knot covering over the core member as well as the reinforcing member and securing the meeting edges of the opposite end of said knot covering together on the inside of the core member.

WILLIAM H. VE RELLE. 

